Recently we've started building one off, bespoke camper vans for those looking to escape to the wilds and survive totally off grid. Martin started in professional motorsport in 1989 when he started working for Mike Little Preparations (MLP) after first becoming a qualified technician for a dealership. After gaining experience competing successfully himself as a driver in local and national events,
also building and maintaining rally cars for MLP in the WRC, Italian Championship, Middle East Championship and other European events Martin was asked by Malcolm Wilson to help them when Malcolm took over the Official Ford team contract at the end of the 1996 season. After several years building cars, engineering and eventually being Event Manager for M-Sport along with the responsibility of test driving each World Championship car before it departed to the events, Martin felt the time was right to start his own business. After leaving M Sport, CA1 Sport was started and contracted by Martins long time friend Colin McRae to help him develop a new class of affordable rally car to compete with the performance of the WRC cars, this car was to be known as the R4. Unfortunately the accident that claimed Colin’s life was also to bring a halt to the development of the R4. After spending a year operating from the McRae workshops CA1 Sport moved premises to their hometown of Carlisle in Cumbria. A new workshop was bought to continue working in motorsport. CA1 Sport now have a good customer base and all the equipment and experience needed to compete at the very highest levels in Rallying, this facility has helped CA1 Sport run some of the best WRC cars in the UK and last year have won several events outright and also claimed the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship. Martin is still contracted to M Sport as an event engineer for various teams in Europe but CA1 Sport have spread their knowledge to enable them to work on many types and makes of cars. Specialising in World Rally Cars they have also built many new cars including Fiesta R2s along with major re build and restorations of old and current Focus WRC cars. In their continuing programmes they have at the moment some of the cars are Mitsubishi WRC, Skoda Fabia WRC, Ford Focus WRC, Mitsubishi Evo X, Renault Clio R3 and Fiesta R2. Many teams now use CA1 Sport ltd to help with their own programmes, along with supplying experienced mechanics and engineering CA1 Sport also carry out rebuilds on components for customers own cars. Rebuilding these parts at their base in Cumbria before fitting the rebuilt parts in the customer’s workshops prior to events.
